Hospital and Pharmacy Groups Launch Second Pro-340B Ad Campaign This Year

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An ad campaign by 340B hospital and pharmacy groups targets federal policymakers with messages touting the program's good deeds.

340B hospital and pharmacy groups have launched another digital ad campaign touting the 340B program’s benefits to policymakers. It comes amid a rise in negative messages about 340B from the drug industry and conservative think tanks and the publication of

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Local Community Group Continues Late Congressman’s Push for 340B Hospital Oversight

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U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.), who began an inquiry into alleged 340B program misuse involving a hospital in his district, died from complications of colorectal cancer Monday.

A Richmond, Va., citizen’s group is continuing the fight against a health system accused of 340B program misuse at a hospital in a low-income, majority Black neighborhood in the wake of the death of U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.),

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HHS Enlists Health Centers in Six-Week COVID Vaccine Drive, GOP Leaders Question Funding and Priorities

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HHS is giving health centers $350 million in unused COVID-19 provider relief funds to increase vaccinations in underserved communities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said last week it would apply $350 million in unused monies from the COVID-19 Provider Relief Fund to launch a new initiative aimed at increasing COVID-19 vaccinations in underserved communities. 

HHS

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Arkansas Health System Asks State to Enforce its 340B Contract Pharmacy Law Against Novo Nordisk

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An Arkansas health system has asked state insurance officials to enforce the state's 340B contract pharmacy anti-discrimination law against Novo Nordisk.

An Arkansas health system is urging state officials to enforce the state’s novel 340B contract pharmacy anti-discrimination law against drug maker Novo Nordisk to end the company’s restrictions on 340B-priced drugs dispensed at multiple contract pharmacies. The lawsuit marks the

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CMS Defends Delayed Fix for Illegal Medicare Drug Payment Cuts for 340B Hospitals

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CMS defends its decision to wait until next year to decide how to remedy illegal past cuts in 340B hospitals Part B drug reimbursement.

Federal health officials last week defended their plan to wait until next year to say how they will reimburse 340B hospitals for illegal Medicare Part B drug payment cuts in place for the past five years after hospital groups told

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340B Law Should Be Amended to Include Emergency-Use COVID-19 Drugs, Health Affairs Opinion Article Says

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A screen shot from an HHS video about the monoclonal antibody betelovimab used to treat COVID-19 infection.

The 340B statute should be amended to extend discounts to emergency-use drugs to treat COVID-19 as a first step in rebuilding the COVID-19 safety net, an opinion piece published yesterday in the medical journal Health Affairs says.

The Nov.

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Law Firm Releases Survey of State Action on 340B Amid Mounting Calls for Congressional Action

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"The big question for a lot of 340B stakeholders is if Congress is going to step in," Mannatt law firm partner Helen Pfister observed during a Nov. 9 webinar on state action on 340B and mounting pressure on Congress to clarify the 340B program.

Pressure on Congress to clarify the 340B program is reaching unprecedented levels, health care attorneys at the Manatt law firm said during a webinar Wednesday on the future of the program.

Meanwhile, a new survey by the firm showed that

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Arkansas and Providers File Briefs Defending State’s Novel 340B Contract Pharmacy Law in Important Fed. Court Case

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Arkansas insurance officials and Arkansas 340B providers filed briefs in federal district court defending the state's unique 340B contract pharmacy law.

Arkansas’s unique 340B contract pharmacy law is about drug delivery, not drug pricing, and thus does not conflict with the federal 340B statute, Arkansas state officials and 340B providers said recently in the latest volley in the drug industry’s federal

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Hospital Group Blasts CMS for Delaying Redress for Illegal 340B Drug Payments Cuts

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CMS should "promptly reimburse" hospitals for unlawfully withheld 340B drug reimbursement from 2018 to 2022, the AHA says.

The federal government has had “more than adequate time to correct” its unlawful Medicare Part B payment cuts for hospitals’ 340B purchased drugs from 2018 through 2022 and should promptly reimburse the hospitals it harmed, the American Hospital Association said

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AIDS Advocates Holding Weeklong Protest Over Gilead’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Restrictions and Changes In Patient Assistance Program

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AIDS advocates are holding a week long series of protests outside Gilead's California headquarters.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) members are staging a weeklong, twice-daily series of protests at drug maker Gilead Science’s Northern California headquarters to protest the company’s policy to impose conditions on 340B providers that use contract pharmacies to dispense 340B-priced drugs.  

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